Yaletown Holistics is proud to be one of the first places in Canada to offer Thermographic technology to it's clients.
What Does Breast Thermography Offer?
THE EARLIEST BREAST CANCER DETECTION AVAILABLE
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a test that could offer women true early detection, enough in advance to prevent invasive tumor growth?
Breast thermography has the ability to warn women up to 10 years before any other procedure that a cancer may be forming; thus, allowing for prompt and timely treatment.
INDIVIDUALIZED BREAST CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT
Are you personally at greater risk for breast cancer?
Women with a family history are definitely at greater risk, but 75% of women who get breast cancer have NO family history of the disease. If discovered, certain thermographic risk markers can warn a woman that she needs to be vigilant in monitoring her breast health.
AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BREAST CANCER PREVENTION
Is estrogen causing increased activity in your breasts?
The greatest single risk factor for breast cancer is lifetime exposure of the breasts to estrogen. Breast thermography plays a significant role in prevention by warning women if they have estrogen dominant activation of their breasts. With the help of her doctor, a woman can use this information to decrease her breast cancer risk by taking an active role in the single most important prevention action known.
ACCURATE NON-INVASIVE SCREENING FOR WOMEN UNDER 40
Do you know that approximately 1/3 of all breast cancers occur in women under 45?
This is the most common cancer in women in this age group. Breast cancers in younger women are usually more aggressive and have poorer survival rates. Breast thermography offers women under 40 a sensitive non-invasive (no radiation and painless) method of monitoring their breast health beginning with baseline screening at age 20.
Unlike after-the-fact (a cancerous tumor is already there) detection technologies such as mammography, MRI, CT, ultrasound, or PET scans, breast thermography has the ability to give a warning signal far in advance of invasive tumor growth. Combined with an unprecedented role in prevention, risk assessment, and screening for younger women, breast thermography offers women information that no other testing procedure can provide.
The procedure is non-invasive, no radiation or intravenous injection is used; thus, examinations can be performed as often as indicated.
Since there is no body contact during the examination, there is no discomfort.
Infrared imaging (thermography) is the earliest method of breast cancer detection known. This is due to its ability to monitor the physiology (function), and thus the health, of the breast over time.
Infrared imaging can detect the pre-cancerous state of the breast up to 10 years before a cancerous tumor is found by any other method.
A positive infrared image represents the highest known risk factor for the future development of breast cancer, 10 times more significant than any family history of the disease.
Compared to mammography, 7 out of 10 times infrared imaging is the first alarm that something is happening.
Infrared imaging has an overall 90% sensitivity rate.
Infrared imaging has an overall 10% false positive rate. However, due to infrared imaging’s ability to detect the earliest signs of breast cancer, further studies are needed to follow patients over a prolonged period of time.
The examinations produce an overall 10% false negative rate. Using this as a prognostic indicator has shown that most of these tumors are non-aggressive.
- Since infrared imaging is not an anatomical imaging procedure, it cannot determine the exact location of a tumor.
Further information
How is breast thermography performed?
Breast cancer facts
Organic consumers Association: Mammograms
Sources:
1997-2000 Index Medicus – ACS, NEJM, JNCI, J Breast
1980-1986 Index Medicus – Cancer, AJOG, Thermology
1996 Text – Atlas of Mammography: New Early Signs in Breast Cancer
1982 Text – Biomedical Thermology
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